Double Texture / Linking Objects

SNakeFluGeL · Post by **SNakeFluGeL** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:02 pm

This is my first post so please don't blaim the n00b =)

Ok so, I have two burning questions I need to ask, I've tried everything!

Is it possible to link objects... Like when you build two objects (two cubes) you put those two together and is there a way to link them so it becomes one. so 1 cube [] + 1 cube [] link it and make it 1 [ ]

That way when you edit a cube you don't have like a million pieces but just one object.

Second question when I was looking at some spearhead maps I saw that in one object like the stair way they have 3 different textures in one object. how is the possible without making it hollow?

Please tell me this ...
thx
-SNake

SNakeFluGeL · Post by **SNakeFluGeL** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:53 pm

Don't be afraid to reply

Butch · Post by **Butch** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:03 pm

for the second question, do you mean they have 3 textures on one face? BTW the decompiler hollows every brush

crunch · Post by **crunch** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:10 pm

Yes, as a matter of fact, you can merge brushes.
But there are rules! The merged brushes cannot have any concave surfaces when mated. They must be convex.

So if you cut a doorway from a wall, and get 3 brushes, the door cutout makes the wall surface area "concave", so they will not merge.

To do this, first you must go into Edit-->Preferences, and click on "Wide Toolbar", and then restart Radiant.
Then the CSGMerge icon will be there near the Hollow icon, and the CSG Subtract icon.

Here's how it will then work. Select your brushes to merge, and hit the CSG Merge key.
Look here:

But the easier way to do it for cubes would be to just stretch them to size.

After you merge, snap the points to the grid!

To select one side of a brush for texturing, use 'ctrl + shift + LMB'

Kill Ya Later!

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:18 pm

Damn, i didn't even know u could do that! wow!
thanks a bunch, crunch!

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:03 pm

for more complex objects/brush groups, you can turn them into a func_group:
- Select all brushes that shall belong to this group
- Rightclick on one of them
- select in the menu: func/group

Now, when you have selected one brush of this group and you press Ctrl+E, all others will be selected, too.
Not very comfortable, but better than nothing...

(And we won't blame the n00b, you came to the right place!)

nuggets · Post by **nuggets** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:29 am

1st question answered by Wacko,

2nd question, use "shift" to select an object, and "ctrl + shift" for faces, this will allow mulitple textuing on a single brush

SNakeFluGeL · Post by **SNakeFluGeL** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:11 am

Omg yes it's true, thank you guys so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

How the hell do you guys know so incredibly much

Ohw well many thanks for hepling a n00b out!

Greetingz SNake

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:20 am

SNakeFluGeL wrote:How the hell do you guys know so incredibly much

Don't you have bought "The Beginner's Guide to Mapping for MOHAA", Aahom Daehraeps, 2001??? I really don't know anybody who did it without that book!!

na, just kidding

We did ask the same questions, but a little earlier...

SNakeFluGeL · Post by **SNakeFluGeL** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:21 pm

ah damn Wacko, I thought there really was a book =)

If there was a book I would definitly have bought it, I like mapping so much! It's really hard but I just practice a lot and I mange to find new things everytime I build more. I have a map called The Complex which can't be downloaded but if you like to see it I can give it to you, it is a bit similiar to the Complex of N64 game James Bond GoldenEye. But in the mean time I learned a lot and I like the scripting interaction as well!

Never the less I adore everyone who makes beautiful maps I always look at it with big eyes and the thought of "How the hell did he make this..."

I also see you have a lot of other stuff like calk, no draw (I know what those do) but you also have visible and stuff like that things in my eyes useless =/

I hope someday I will make very cool maps as well! Let's just pray =D

nuggets · Post by **nuggets** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 2:25 pm

there is a book for mapping, we call him Wacko